(21 Jun 2005)

1. Exterior of Metropolitan Museum of Art
2. Matisse exhibit sign "The Fabric of Dreams - Matisse, his Art and his Textiles"
3. Exhibition
4. Pan from robes to paintings in which they are featured
5. Painting: "Purple Robe and Anemones"
6. Robe featured in "Purple Robe and Anemones"
7. Tilt down of painting "Purple Robe and Anemones"
8. Painting: "Small Odalisque in a Purple Robe"
9. SOUNDBITE (English): Rebecca Rabinow, Assistant Curator of the Department of 19th Century, Modern and Contemporary Art - Metropolitan Museum of Art:
"And you see that throughout this exhibition whenever Matisse had a problem or seemed to have a little bit of a, some kind of conflict to overcome, he turned to his textiles, which he referred to as his working library. And so if you walk through the exhibition you'll see relief-printed fabrics; you'll see fabrics which he acquired in North Africa, you'll even see Cuba and Tapa cloths, non-Western textiles that may have influenced his compositions for his paper cut-outs at the end of his life."
10. Red and green patterned fabric of an Ottoman Robe
11. Painting: "Reclining Odalisque" showing red patterned fabric in the background
12. Painting: "Woman with a Veil" showing a red and green Ottoman Robe fabric
13. Tilt down of "Woman with a Veil" showing a red and green Ottoman Robe fabric
14. Exhibition
15. Painting: "Two Young Women in Yellow Dress and Tartan Dress"
16. Parisian Couture Dress and Jacket
17. Ottoman or North African Jacket from the second half of the 19th Century
18. Painting: "Seated Odalisque, Left Leg Bent, Ornamental Background and Checkerboard" showing North African Jacket
19. Wider shot of painting "Seated Odalisque, Left Leg Bent, Ornamental Background and Checkerboard"
20. Pan of exhibition

STORYLINE:

The preview to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art's first exhibition to explore the connection between painting and textiles in the works of Henri Matisse opened on Monday

"Matisse: the Fabric of Dreams - His Art and His Textiles" features 45 painted works, and 31 drawings and prints, displayed alongside examples from Matisse's own collection of fabrics, costumes, and carpets.

The exhibition marks the first public showing of his textile collection, referred to by the artist sometimes, as his "working library".

The textile collection has been packed in family trunks since his death in 1954.

Among the highlights of the exhibition are paintings such as "Seated Odalisque," and "Purple Robe and Anemones."

The selection of approximately 35 textiles range from a small piece of printed cotton, to parisian couture gowns, African Wall Hangings, and Turkish robes.

For generations, Matisse's family had been involved in the textile industry in Northeastern France.

He greatly appreciated textiles, and collected fabrics from when he was an art student in Paris right through to the later years of his life.

Used initially as background elements in his paintings, textiles later became the departure point for his experiments with perspective and an art based on decorative patterning.

The exhibition opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on Thursday June 23, 2005.

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